Improved composition for destroying- insects on flowers, plants



' diluted slam JOHN AHEARILOOF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

Letters Patent No. 96,861, dated November 16, 1869. I

IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR DESTROYING INSECTS ON FLOWERS, PLANTS, AND

BUSHES.

The Schec'lule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To thirty gallons of stable liquor-or rain-water, I add A one pound of carbonate of ammonia, one pound of potash, one gallon of whale-oil, and'one quart of coal-tar. After this composition has stood about six hours, I

add to it ten gallons of rain-water, one pound of Parisgreen, and-one pound of powdered "White hellebore.

I then mix the whole well together, and apply by sprinkling, using a whisk of hay, watering-pot, or other convenient article suitable for the purpose.

What I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is- I The composition compounded of the above-named ingredients, and applied for the protection of trees,.

vines, and plants, substantially as set forth.

J. AHEARN.

"Witnesses:

CHAS. A. PE'ITIT,

N. K. ELLSWORTH. 

